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==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||
"For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span; | "For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span; | ||
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and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, | and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, | ||
upon all the living and the dead." | upon all the living and the dead." | ||
"If you can keep your head when all about you | "If you can keep your head when all about you | ||
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If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, | If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, | ||
But make allowance for their doubting too;" | But make allowance for their doubting too;" | ||
''"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, | ''"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, | ||
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, | Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, | ||
Or being hated, don't give way to hating, | Or being hated, don't give way to hating, | ||
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:"'' | And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:"'' | ||
'''"The body of my brother's son | |||
Stood by me, knee to knee: | |||
The body and I pulled at one rope, | |||
But he said nought to me."''' | |||
"This is the way the world ends | |||
This is the way the world ends | |||
This is the way the world ends | |||
Not with a bang but a whimper." | |||
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Poetry"For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span; A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man." "He heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." |
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